Vietnam’s government has approved a five-year pilot for cryptocurrency asset trading, signaling a major step toward regulating the booming digital asset market. The initiative will allow only Vietnamese companies to operate exchanges, with all transactions conducted in Vietnam dong. Issuance of crypto assets will be restricted to local firms, offered exclusively to foreign investors.

To qualify, potential exchange providers must hold at least 10 trillion dong ($379 million) in capital, with 65% contributed by institutional investors. Foreign ownership is capped at 49%. Vietnamese investors already holding crypto can continue trading, but after a six-month grace period following the first license, activity on unlicensed platforms will become illegal.

This policy marks a significant shift for a country that ranks among the top five globally for crypto adoption, with over 17 million holders. While Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies remain outside legal tender, Vietnam is positioning blockchain and digital assets as key pillars of future economic growth.

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This morning, 12 Senate Democrats published a six-page framework for digital asset market structure legislation in which they outlined their plan to combat illicit finance while protecting users’ financial privacy.

The group of Democrats, which included Senate Banking ranking member Ruben Gallego (AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), and Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), stated in the first page of the document that digital assets legislation should be guided by certain values, include “protecting financial privacy while denying bad actors access to the financial system.”

In the fifth section of the framework, they outlined what this looks like.

The outline included the following…

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Cboe Global Markets has revealed plans to launch Bitcoin and Ether Continuous futures on its Cboe Futures Exchange starting November 10, 2025, pending regulatory approval. The move marks a major step toward expanding access to digital asset derivatives in a regulated U.S. market.

Unlike traditional futures, these contracts will feature a 10-year expiration, eliminating the need for frequent rollovers. They will be cash-settled and tied to real-time spot prices through transparent daily adjustments. This structure is designed to simplify position management while offering traders a more efficient way to gain long-term crypto exposure.

Catherine Clay, Global Head of Derivatives at Cboe, emphasized that perpetual-style futures have been widely adopted overseas, and now U.S. traders will have access within a trusted, centrally cleared framework. The launch underscores Cboe’s strategy to grow its product suite beyond VIX futures, strengthening its role in shaping the future of crypto derivatives trading.

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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), the world’s leading derivatives and securities exchange network, announced plans to launch Cboe Continuous futures for bitcoin and ether beginning November 10, 2025, pending regulatory review. The new product marks a major expansion of Cboe’s digital asset roadmap, introducing a U.S.-regulated alternative to perpetual-style futures widely traded in offshore markets.

The launch will take place on Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE) and is designed to give traders long-term, simplified access to bitcoin and ether price exposure in a centrally cleared environment.

Unlike traditional futures contracts, which typically expire on a quarterly…

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DALLAS — Sept. 5, 2025 – Onramp Bitcoin has launched Onramp Institutional, an advisory-led program built to help investment committees, boards, CIOs and treasurers evaluate, structure, and govern Bitcoin exposure with audit-ready controls—less pitch deck, more process.

Instead of steering allocators toward a single type of product/vehicle, the workflow begins with Onramp Advisory—a committee-grade briefing and decision framework—that routes clients into the access path that best fits their mandate: direct custody via a Multi-Institution Custody (MIC) vault, a U.S. statutory trust (Wyoming), or an international Cayman fund.

The custody spine is MIC:…

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